Chinese Medicine VS Modern Medicine

I have been sick for 2 days, and today finally i have fully recovered.It was actually just a cold at first which then turned into high fever.But it wasn't really that pleasant, i was so sick that my body temperature reached 38.2`celcius even after i had consumed paracetamol.At first, i thought i can handle it myself, eat some paracetamol , drink water and rest, and i will be fine, however as my illness went even worse , finally i had no choice but to visit the doctor and got some fever pills and antibiotics.

My condition didn't go well even after i took the pills and here comes an alternative to my illness -Chinese medicine, recommended by my family members.Thus, i took a bottle of liquid (which basically are paracetamol as well, but mixed with chloroform as preservative and ethanol), and in just less than 30 minutes, i was sweating so much that my temperature went down immediately.Not only that , i felt much better in the next few hours.Since the result was so encouraging, i continued with Chinese medicine later at night but it was different one.After eating my dinner (which is mee soup), i drank a full cup of greenish drink (called Chu Mao Dan) made from a type of grass found commonly beside the road.It's believed that it can help in lower down the body temperature. Of course, Chinese medicine's taste isn't really pleasant, the drink has the smell and taste of wild grass, and it's advisable to add few spoons of honey to mix with it as to make it ''drinkable'' or '' sweeter'' and besides, honey also has this medicinal value.At last, thanks to this prescription, i got back my health in the second day, except with additional sore throat.

Frankly speaking, i have never really believe in Chinese medicine, because they never have a scientific explaination which as for a science student like me,i prefer to know what am i consuming or at least to know how it works. However, after this time, it seems like Chinese medicine undoubtedly did have it's value and perhaps much better in certain illness compared to Modern medicine.Chinese medicine is more based on the effects of herbs, drinks, food, the combinations and etc on our body. It's more like a belief except that they really work out. Modern medicine on the other hand, is based on scientific explainations, in term of bio-molecular functions of the molecules of the pills and how they react on the cells in our body. Of course, not to say that Chinese medicine doesn't have their explainations. And usually their explaination is more on the nature of certain herbs and how they affect our body ''chi'' and our health. And because of this as well, Chinese medicine usually will have less side-effect compared to Modern medicine as usually they are obtained naturally.

Thus, from my personal point of view, i believe that both these medicinal branches - Chinese and Modern medicine are useful and it's depend on us to use them wisely.Certain diseases, require the knowledge of Modern medicine which help to identify the cause of the disease, and ways to cure it whereas in some illness, Chinese medicine comes to play which prove to be useful. Therefore, it's the best to have knowledge of both sides and certainly it will come in handy when one needs them.